El 90% del hate que recibe One Piece en internet viene de gente que en su vida ha visto ni siquiera un arco completo de op o directamente nada, literalmente no te los puedes tomar en serio porque no conocen la obra y solo repiten lo que alguien dijo en twitter o tiktok.
Is One Piece genuinely bad, or are people in the writing community trying too hard to look smart by hating on something popular? 😭
I’ve been noticing how much criticism One Piece gets from people who discuss writing, and I’m genuinely curious. Does the story actually deserve all this hate, or has hating on popular media become a way for people to make themselves look more intellectually superior?
I’m not saying One Piece is flawless. It has pacing issues, questionable writing decisions, and moments that could’ve been handled better. But we’re talking about a story with incredible foreshadowing, long-term narrative payoffs, layered themes, political commentary, and character arcs that connect to events hundreds of chapters later.
You can criticise all of that, obviously. But sometimes it feels like people are so determined to prove that One Piece is overrated that they refuse to acknowledge anything it does well.
My question is: are people genuinely analysing One Piece’s writing, or has disliking popular media become a personality trait in certain parts of the writing community? 👀